Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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DER KAMPFMAGAZINE

ADLER AND RENNER

Der Kampf, 1916, No. 2. In an article “War Aims” (against annexations), Fr. Adler quotes fromSüddeutsche Monatshefte theirstatement[1]:

HILFERDING (KAUTSKYITE VIEWS)

Der Kampf, 1916, No. 2, pp. 59-60.

[1]In his article “War Aims”, Friedrich Adler quotes the statement of the Social-Democratic group in the Prussian Landtag of January 17, 1916.

[2]During the First World War Trotsky pursued a Centrist policy and supported social-imperialists. Lenin regarded Centrism as the most harmful and dangerous variety of opportunism, for masked opportunists are a hundred times more harmful and dangerous for the working-class movement. Led by Lenin, the Bolsheviks waged an implacable struggle against Centrism and its Trotskyist variety. Exposing the real nature of the Trotskyist slogan “neither victory nor defeat” Lenin pointed out that he who supports this slogan in the present war, “is consciously or unconsciously a chauvinist”, “an ‘enemy’ of proletarian policy”, a supporter of the bourgeoisie (see present edition, Vol. 21, p. 279).